Finance Minister to ask state heads to reduce the state tax on LPG

27 Jun 2011 Evaluate

Due to nationwide protests against the increase in prices of diesel, kerosene and domestic cooking gas, finance minister Pranab Mukherjee is likely to write letter to state Chief Ministers to reduce state taxes on at least LPG to reduce the impact of increase in prices on the common man. Meanwhile, the states like West Bengal and Kerala have already announced that they will be reducing the taxes on petroleum products. 

The Finance minister will be writing letter to the state heads to explain the rationale of the price hike and the need to reduce sales tax on cooking gas to give some relief to the common people. The central government has removed custom duty, excise duty and import duty from the crude oil and its products, which would result in revenue loss of Rs 49, 000 crore per annum.

meanwhile, giving relief to common man, West Bengal government has decided to remove sales tax on cooking gas; the decision would reduce the price of domestic cooking gas by Rs 16 in state. The Kerala’s CM Oommen Chandy too has decided to reduce the state tax on diesel, after this the diesel price will get reduced by 75 paise in state, however, Kerala government would loss around Rs 142.2 crore by giving up the taxes. The Delhi government is also expected to reduce the sales tax and VAT on diesel and domestic cooking gas. At present, the Delhi government gets around Rs 5 or 12.5% from the sales tax on diesel and 4 % or Rs 16 of VAT on domestic cooking gas. The Congress has asked its Chief Ministers to find out the similar possibility to provide relief to the common man.

The Empowered Group of Ministers (EGoM) chaired by Finance Minister Pranab Mukharejee on 24 June has decided to hike the price of  diesel by Rs 3/litre, Kerosene by Rs 2/liter and domestic cooking gas by Rs 50/14.2 kg cylinder. The decision of price hike was taken to reduce the revenue loss of state owned Oil Marketing Companies, OMCs were making loss of Rs 490 crore everyday because of increased international prices of crude oil.


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